American Acacia Honey

Tasting Notes

Light gold honey with delicate flavors of white flowers and mint.

Ingredients & Origin

USA

100% Raw Acacia Honey

About the Pollen

The American cousin of our popular Italian and Hungarian Acacia honeys, this beautiful and delicate light gold, raw Acacia honey is a refreshing and vibrant representative of the Acacia honey family while still retaining its prized and characteristic lightness.

Also known as Locust Honey, American Acacia honey is made from the nectar bees gather from Black Locust Trees. Originally native to the Appalachian range, the Black Locust tree is considered naturalized across North America and parts of Asia and Europe. A fast growing tree that may be considered a nuisance by some, Black Locust trees are useful for colonizing disturbed areas and produce cascades of beautiful white blooms that provide a feast for honeybees and other pollinators each spring.

Acacia honey is slow to crystallize and full of good-for-you antioxidants. Try on your morning oatmeal or yogurt, in your favorite tea, or by the spoonful!

This honey would also be excellent in homemade honey mustard or as a luxuriant frosting whipped with cold butter.

Honey Facts

Our passion for teas...

We are delighted to be able to share one of the largest and most varied collections of single origin traditional teas on the East Coast with our communi·tea. Personally curated by owner Hayley, these teas come to us from small farms and collectives and represent the best of their terroirs and production styles. While wondering our shelves in-person or online, you will discover familiar favorites like English Breakfast and Long Jing (Dragonwell) alongside rare teas like Shan Lin Xi and herbal tisanes blended for mindfulnessinflammation, and much more.

& bees...

Raw honey is one of nature's most marvelous gifts. Not only is honey a marvel of energy-giving carbohydrates fortified with antioxidants, minerals and beneficial enzymes - making it the healthiest natural sugar - honey comes in a rainbow of flavors and varieties with something for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. From dark, robust honeys like Buckwheat and Chestnut to light or amber honeys like Tupelo or Orange Blossom, the subtle and sometimes not so subtle flavor differences between varietal honeys lend themselves to extraordinary flavor combinations and experimentation in the kitchen, on the charcuterie board, or in your favorite cup of tea.

all started with our Queen Bee

A trained chef, Hayley's vision for Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. has been her entire lifetime in the making. Though she was still drinking espresso at the time, the Tea & Honey seeds were planted in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with training and appreciation for food and beverage as not just sustenance, but experience and hospitality. Her time spent as a chef-instructor at Jacques Pépin's French Culinary Institute introduced her first to matcha (and its ability to enhance sustained and steady focus), then to the subtleties of single-origin traditional teas like high mountain Taiwanese oolong. As a celebrated and awarded taster and master of culinary arts, in 2015 Hayley opened the doors to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Since then, she has cultivated a communi·tea for discovering rare and exciting teas, extraordinary raw honeys & unique gifts produced by small farmers and artisans from around the world.